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- Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
![. . . (1) Veterans Cemetery Cleared of Produce, Ready to Break Ground “Sir, there ain’t no more strawberries” touches off touches off serious problems in The Caine Mutiny, but to various […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Veterans-Cemetery-Strawberry-Fields-Forgone-115x115.jpg "Notes from the Weekend: Veterans Cemetery Ready for Groundbreaking, #DEMGLUT, and Game O’ Thrones")
![. . . Friend of the Blog Jeanine Robbins is reporting in on the big homeless action planned for in front of Disneyland tonight at 9:00 p.m. — “under Mickey,” whatever […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Mickey-Homeless-Mouse-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Homeless Advocates Prepare to Descend on Disneyland; What’s the Problem, Anyway?")
![. . . Here’s the content of a press release that came with our order of fire-grilled chicken and soda water: Businessman and Former Anaheim City Council Member Harry Sidhu […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sidhu-eastman-murray-115x115.jpg "Disney and Pringle Apparently (For Now) Place Their Chips on Harry Sidhu for Mayor")
![. . . As we’ve noted in our previous post, the fate of City Manager Paul Emery was to be decided today by 5:00 p.m. It took an extra hour […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Andal-Superimposed-Shape-Anaheims-Future-e1499840025897-115x115.jpg "Linda, Queen (or Actually Interim City Manager) of the Andals, First of Her Name, Ascends to Power")
![. . . Fullerton City Council member and friend of the (Vern portion of) the blog Bruce Whitaker, has announced — as reported on the pages of the not-only-renascent-but-back-in-fighting-form Friends 4 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Whitaker-and-his-campaign-team-115x115.png "Whitaker Declares Intent to Run to Challenge Chang as Newman’s Replacement if Recall Succeeds")
![. . . Because bus travel on OC’s boulevards is not already uninviting enough, Anaheim has come up with a new way to spend its public money (and civic reputation) on […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Disney-Humps-Lyster-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: The Happiest Bus Kiosks on Earth Greet Upstanding Visitors")
![. . . For those of you who are curious: this is an example of what’s usually in our “moderation” box of comments — those with characteristics that we’ve set […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Comments-in-Moderation-cropped-115x115.png "An Inside Peek at OJB’s “Moderated Comments” — and Thus the OC Political Blogosphere Itself")
![. . . If I were to have published the defense of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon that I had planned to write earlier this week — before Rendon pissed me […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Rendon-and-SB-562-graphic-115x115.jpg "An Actual Path to Single-Payer in California — and Speaker Rendon Can Help? Maybe Yes — and Here’s How!")
![. . . The OCGOP is practically quivering with excitement over the chance to accuse Democrats of gay-bashing: OCGOP STATEMENT ON OC DEMOCRATIC PARTY VICE-CHAIR’S VERBAL ATTACK ON GAY VOLUNTEERS ORANGE […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/LeTourneau-Whitaker-Recall-115x115.png "(Belated) Weekend Open Thread: OCGOP Complaint About Gay-Bashing Leaves Just One Thing Out")
![. . . 4:59 p.m., June 23, 2017 To the California Democratic Party’s (“CDP”) Compliance Review Committee (“CRC”): [1] Introduction I write to you as a Democratic State Central Committee […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CDP-election-layout-of-registration-and-voting-hall-115x115.png "My Letter to the California Democratic Party’s Compliance Review Committee Re Evidence of Election Fraud")
![. . . Kimberly Ellis issued a press release yesterday providing additional details of her claim that the process of the California Democratic Party’s May 20 vote for CDP Chair […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CDP-Chair-Kimberly-Ellis-Lenore-Albert-115x115.png "Lenore Albert Inadvertently Makes Kimberly Ellis’s Case That an Independent Forensic Audit is Absolutely Necessary")
![. . . One main argument made by Larry Agran, Chumley, and others from their camp was that the actual purpose of the “land swap,” to place the Southern California […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Veterans-cemetery-design-plans-115x115.jpg "Vets Cemetery: the Counter-Argument That the Vets Said Was Manure Was Manure Indeed")
![. . . Here’s a story that I’d like you to read about “white liberal racism,” focusing on a bunch of emails from a wealthy and enlightened-seeming school in Seattle that […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/black-lives-matter-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: “Black Lives Matter”‘s Missing Words")
![. . . That Mark Daniels guy sure is willing to embarrass people. He plants their photos on Facebook without warning to celebrate something that they’ve done. He’s embarrassingly better at […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Mark-Daniels-holding-candle-115x115.jpg "Let’s Embarrass Anaheim’s Mark Daniels With Our Pre-Surgery Well-Wishes!")
It does raise the question of why fight it in the first place. Dems are so dumb. They might as…